Sentence examples for counteractive from inspiring English sources

If the ceremonial acts were ignored, the article would lose its efficacy and might even prove dangerously counteractive.

It was a stern bolt of solitude and just the right counteractive force, which Mr. Wooley must have known.

I have found an afternoon nap here to be counteractive toward my own sleep patterns.

Would you like to calculate how close you are to needing an artery stent?" They become counteractive in the same way the most even-tempered of us can have a violent dislike of well-meaning eco-warriors: you know their morals are right, but nobody likes feeling judged.

While it was later clarified that aid would be channelled through NGOs operating in the countries and only aid to governments would be cut, this step was seen as counteractive.

Could it perhaps be that the inclusivity of UN and world politics is directly counteractive to the imperative of pruning – of making hard, unpalatable decisions, of choosing priorities, and asking the rest to wait?

For every dream of unfettered longing a counteractive impulse seems sooner or later to assert itself: the restless scratch of observation, which snags on real things and difficult "wretched ordinariness".